Blizzard adding unreleased content to Vanilla...

[Siglius]

Call me crazy but if it wasn't released in vanilla wouldn't that make it NOT part of vanilla and therefore changing the vanilla experience?

Basically this. I cant imagine blizz spending dev time to add new content, only to get yell at how they are "ruining vanilla". Seems like a waste of time since why would they bother adding new shit to classic when they could just relaunch tbc which already has an established fanbase and is a pretty much guaranteed sucess.

[Kokolums]

What would be cool is if they used WoW Classic as an alternate universe and branched off of WoW Classic in a totally different way so that the first xpac was not the Burning Crusade but something else. I'd like to see them keep the threats smaller as well instead of world-ending.

I was thinking something like this:

WoW Classic
Expansion 1: Threat of the Defias. Enemy factions: Defias, Bloodsail Buccanneers, Blackwater Raiders, Venture Trading Company. End Boss: Vanessa Van Cleef
Expansion 2: Nightmares. Enemy Threats: Druids of the Fang, Worgen from the Emerald Dream. End Boss: Lord Serpentis

[Tarx]

No I prefer the old content no put more because it will destroy the feeling

[Varvara Spiros Gelashvili]

No I prefer the old content no put more because it will destroy the feeling

How if the content only rewards cosmetics and has limited availability?

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But the emerald dream was added in game in Legion (as a raid). Although we had a few quests back in wrath that took us into it.

Outland was also planned for vanilla. So I guess that version of outland would be "unreleased content", even though it was released basically as TBC

The emerald dream was originally a zone and there are several unfinished quest lines. It would be a tiny amount of stuff that a small dev team could work on.

[gaymer77]

What would be cool is if they used WoW Classic as an alternate universe and branched off of WoW Classic in a totally different way so that the first xpac was not the Burning Crusade but something else. I'd like to see them keep the threats smaller as well instead of world-ending.

I was thinking something like this:

WoW Classic
Expansion 1: Threat of the Defias. Enemy factions: Defias, Bloodsail Buccanneers, Blackwater Raiders, Venture Trading Company. End Boss: Vanessa Van Cleef
Expansion 2: Nightmares. Enemy Threats: Druids of the Fang, Worgen from the Emerald Dream. End Boss: Lord Serpentis

So you want Deadmines and Wailing Caverns then?

[Armourboy]

I would play the the living shit out of the both of these servers!

However, it would make much more sense to start with the classic server then a year or two later introduce the progressing server. Maybe with the option to transfer over your lvl 60 chr from classic over to progressing server.

Agree with you, I would probably play them both.

Keep in mind I have no issue with them adding new content, but that needs to be done on separate servers if they do. There should always be a base server that is strictly what we had in Vanilla only.

Is it possible that Blizzard does something like this? Sure, I mean if it makes them enough money they would be foolish not too, even if that means running two separate MMO's.

Is it likely? I seriously doubt it. I figure the goal is too get it running and use as small of a team as possible and then anything added would be TBC or Wrath realms.

[Powerogue]

I really don't think they should do TBC or later. The reasoning for vanilla is that almost all of its raid/dungeon/leveling content has been removed and replaced with (debatably better) content with Cataclysm, but removed all the same. TBC and later do not have that excuse, except for Zul'aman that I know of.

[anon5123]

Here anything can happen: new content, balance changes, heck, making paladin/druid even viable on tanking...

We already have that, it's called TBC.